Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHis head was turned by too great success.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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One hand washes the other.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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